What can be more frustrating than a printer that declines to work well when you are approaching the time limits of your projects? What else can you do except kick your printer in anger? However, this might not have occurred if you would have taken proper care of your printer and maintained it well. Good maintenance of your printer can make it work efficiently for years without difficulty. For laser printers, a laser toner cartridge would seem quite expensive thing to buy. However if you use your printer properly you may be able to preserve quite a lot of expenses. One method to do this would be buying bulk ink. This is cost effective and saves you from troubles in the future, to quite an extent.

To maintain your printer for proper working and an increased life span, you first need to limit down the extra usage of your printer. 'Extra usage' may denote printing a document many times due to the mistakes that are printed each time. Thus, before you print a page, you need to consider certain points;

Select eco friendly fonts. Eco friendly fonts are the ones that do not use much of your ink or toner. You may also wish to download software such as Ecofont. Such software is able to minimize the ink used, up to 20% making your font eco friendly.

Proofread before you print. This way you can lessen the errors made in the text to quite a degree, and thus preserves the number of times you have to throw away the defected print.

Print only what is needed by you. You might not want to print the complete document with all the pictures and graphics. If you require the text, do not print the pictures and do not print text if you require graphics.

You can print black and white and avoid the colored print as much as you can. This may be appropriate when you are printing something that is not your final file.

Maintenance and cleaning of your printer has an important position, in increasing the lifespan of your printer. You should know the proper way to clean your printer. For inkjet printers, most of the tidying is required by the printing heads. To clean them you must initially take out the cartridges and then clean the dry ink accumulated on them using a damp cloth. Later, you can put them back. You should also change the cartridges promptly and use quality cartridges that are not subject to any leakages which may cause hazards.

As for laser printers, the first area to clean is the rollers. The soft rubber coating on them is to be wiped by a piece of moist cloth. You can also vacuum the interior of the printer to get rid of any toner particles that may be deposited. It is a good idea to know how to maintain and change the fuser promptly. Printers of known companies also offer printer maintenance kits along with the printer. Keep them handy and also keep using it as there are parts in them that will wear out with time. Maintain your printer nicely and make it last long.